I've been eating Billy Bear Sliced Sausage for years now, and don't ever intend to give up! Mum started to buy this very yummy meat when me and my brother were very little, to encourage us to eat more, I think, as we were both very fussy eaters when we were small - oh, how times have changed. ... Read review
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A review by pennywa on Billy Bear Sausage November 3rd, 2007
Author's product rating:
Value for Money
Excellent
Product Quality
Excellent
Product package
Excellent
Taste
Delicious
How loyal are you to this brand?
Very
Advantages:
Tastes lovely, reminds me of nan, quite cheap, easy to find
Disadvantages:
None
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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I've been eating Billy Bear Sliced Sausage for years now, and don't ever intend to give up! Mum started to buy this very yummy meat when me and my brother were very little, to encourage us to eat more, I think, as we were both very fussy eaters when we were small - oh, how times have changed. I couldn't stand meat when I was little and mum tried every which way possible to get me to eat it - then she hit on Billy Bear Sausage Slices and there was no stopping me! I used to love it in my packed lunch sandwiches when I was in primary school and I also liked to eat it with beans and mash for tea.
Now I am 'all grown up', I still love to eat it! It's my nan's fault, really. When she comes to visit us at weekends, she brings us little things, like a few sweets or magazines and occasionally she will bring us really weird and wonderful things, like Billy Bear Sausage. So, she's kind of carried on the 'tradition' and we continue to eat it!
I love to eat it with Cadbury's Instant Smashed Potato with baked beans or tinned spaghetti. Dad says it's full of rubbish, and it may well be, but it certainly tastes very nice, so I'm not going to stop eating it. Nan (and mum) buy it from Tesco from the deli counter, and they usually get about ten slices of it. It's not very expensive, it costs about 99p for ten to twelve slices, which I think is pretty good.
I like to put it inside crusty bread buns with mustard for my packed lunch (and maybe a bit of salad, if I'm feeling 'healthy) now that I'm all grown up and 'sophisticated' - ha! My friends think I'm daft, but I don't care. I love Billy Bear Sliced Sausage because it reminds me of when I was little and growing up. It's a mad-looking product, though. Each slice is made to resemble a teddy bear's head - complete with a manic-looking grin. It's obviously made to appeal to little kids, but I reckon the look on this bear's face would be enough to put many kids off! It's fairly scary!!
It's made from reconstituted pork and turkey meat - about 30% of one, and 30% of the other, with a few odds and ends thrown in. No E's, as far as I am aware and each slice has 32 calories, which, I suppose, is good if you are watching your weight! I also think you can buy this stuff ready-packed in Tesco's. Each pack has five slices of meat in it and costs about 90p. again, it is marketed towards kiddies, as it has a picture of a nice little bear on the packet, munching his/her way through a lovely looking Billy Bear sandwich….yum!
The taste of Billy Bear Sliced Sausage is lovely, I think. It melts in your mouth and has a very 'meaty' taste and I don't think it tastes at all processed, although I know it is. It smells gorgeous and not artificial and again it has a lovely meaty-smelling aroma and makes your mouth water as soon as you pick up a slice. I love to eat it just on its own, too, by the slice, and when I come in late at night I will often have a look in the fridge to see if there is any spare lurking at the back, and stuff a few slices in my mouth at once.
My brother is also still very fond of Billy Bear Slice Sausage, although not as much as I am! He can also be often found raiding the fridge for a couple of slices. It's nice with Branston pickle in sandwiches and also nice to eat with salads, chopped up - although then you obviously lose the 'bear head'.
My brother and me visit our nan at weekends and she will often give us Billy Bear Sliced Sausage on Jacob's Cream Crackers with piccallili - one of her favourites! Nan's not well at the moment, and she will be in hospital for quite a while, we think, so we'll miss her Billy Bear concoctions until she's all better again. In the meantime, I'll continue to eat Billy Bear Sliced Sausage and think of my nan, and wish her all the luck and love in the world……. xx
Advantages: Cheap, kids love it, all together fab Disadvantages: none
...would eat. I saw the billy bear sausage meat and thought, well maybe that would work. So i purchased it and to my surprise my kids eat their sandwiches up every day, so i thought i would do a review on the product that got my kids to eat their dinner.
The packaging
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The packaging of this, is very suitable to attract children, it has a red background, with billy bear sausage wrote in yellow lettering. On the front there is ... ...make more children think, well billy bear has salad in his sandwich, maybe i should try it. Unfortunatly this did not work on my kids lol, but it could work on others.
Below the bear it has a guideline for the daily amount, and below that it has all the nutritional information and ingredients, which i will list in my review.
If you turn the pack over, it is just a see through packet, which shows the design of the meat.
The meat
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Advantages: Great for dussy eaters Disadvantages: Not sold at some smaller stores
...to get some.
The billy bear sausage comes in slices that can b e bought from the deli coulnter in smaller stores and also in sealed packs (like ham), it comes in the shape of a teddy bears freindly face with big eyes and smile.
I have a little brother who as a kid had been through many operations and it was a game to get him to eat much of anything so my parents tried everything to try and persuade him to eat. this was one of the products they ... ...lunch, but after tasting a Billy Bear sandwich I really didn't care, it had such a unique but very pleasant taste, nothing like any other sandwich slice i had tasted before.
On opening the packet (eventually) it the smell hits you, in a nice way though. The taste is a bit like a mild smoked sausage but it actually comes in slices and can have many other uses other than sandwiches, even eaten alone to coax fussy eaters into eating their meals, I ...
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Advantages: Tasty, inviting for kids, not bad for there health really. Something different Disadvantages: im 18 and i still eat it
Billy Bear Sausage is made from Turkey and Pork and can be purchased from Tesco amongst other supermarkets, either in packets similar to ham which contain 5 slices or from the Deli Counter. Billy Bear is ideal for a childs lunchbox as the cute design will encourage a child to eat there dinner. It can also be served with salad for a more healthy option.
Billy Bear needs to be consumed within two days of opening the package which is not bad seeing ... ...made a few buttys. Billy Bear is also packaged in a protective atmosphere and as allergy's go the recipe contains no nuts, the factory does not handle nuts but the ingredients may contain nuts. It says, Ingredients: Cannot guarantee no nuts. So i would not recommend this to a Nut Allergy sufferer.
Roughly the price of a pack which contains 5 slices is 89p so in my opinion it offers good value for money. Using the new system of measuring calories ...
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Advantages: Tasty, cheap, good looking piece of ham, good with sauce! Disadvantages: Dont eat billy bear with bread you amatuers!!!!!!!
...i have a slice of billy bear ham?", the woman replied "yes" in excitement. The woman then put on her glove so there would be none of diseases past over. She picked up the billy bear ham carefully with her right hand using her fingers to to gently tear off the billy bear ham from the other billy bears in the pile. The woman grappled the billy bear in her hand and passed it over to the excited young girl(it was like christmas day for her) and ran to ... ...She handed over the billy bear and smiled at the lovely checkout person. They said "hi" frosty then frosty said "hi" they then said "15p please" frosty then went into her magical gigantic bag and pulled out a 10p and a 5p! she handed it over and said "thankyou" She then rushed outside and showed everyone the billy bear, everyone just shrugged there shoulders like it was just a piece of sweaty ham, frosty then held the billy bear in her hand and the ...
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Advantages: NONE Disadvantages: Too many to name!!!
...seeing children at school having Billy Bear as a treat in their lunch box. I never was allowed it myself so years later, I decided, with a friend, now was the time to see if the dream matched reality.
After searching all over my local area (most supermarkets don't stock Billy Bear) we eventually managed to track him down at the Morrisons deli counter. To our delight, we didn't know how much to buy! We decided on a few slices, paid and couldn't wait ... ...his out everywhere. Billy Bear is truely disgusting. It has an over processed texture prob. to hide the fact its made from chicken feet and other various animal body parts! The taste is like old ham... slightly sour and a bit like liver.
This product is truely rank and I don't think children or adults alike should be allowed to eat it. Ban Billy Bear!!! ...
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